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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Chad: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: FCO 88
What's it about?
FCO 88
This series contains records of the UK Embassy to Chad.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 88
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Chad: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1971-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the UK Embassy to Chad.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Chad, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 11 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2002 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Africa
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Until a UK embassy was opened in Chad, embassy business was carried out from London, and the records were held by the West Africa Department registry in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series began in 1968
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occasional further accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.3, showing developments in UK relations with Chad not reflected in Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters files.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Republic of Chad became independent in 1960, but the British community in Chad was too small, and British diplomatic and commercial dealings too infrequent, for the establishment of a British embassy at Fort Lamy (later Ndjamena), the capital of Chad, to be justified. The British ambassaor to Chad was resident in London until 1991, from which time the ambassador to Cameroon or the high commissioner in Nigeria were designated as the non-resident ambassador to Chad.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15795/
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